前50 大部分還是這些學校。
芝大，哥大這麽些年來確實上下跳躍比較多。
Penn非常牢固地上升了。
比較明顯下降的： Emory, Brandeis, Rochester, Wake Forest, Rensselaer
旗艦CAL， UCLA上升， USC， NYU也上升了， UFL， 其他UC係也上升。 UVA有所下降。Vandy也上升較多。
T5裏，那時基本還是HYP三角。近二十年來，由於STEM/高科技/矽穀雄起， S和M漸居上。H/M/S成為新的T3三角。
| 1996 | University Name |
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | Princeton University |
| 2 | Yale University |
| 4 | Stanford University |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 6 | Duke University |
| 7 | California Institute of Technology |
| 7 | Dartmouth College |
| 9 | Brown University |
| 10 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 11 | University of Chicago |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 13 | Northwestern University |
| 13 | Cornell University |
| 15 | Columbia University |
| 16 | Rice University |
| 17 | Emory University |
| 18 | University of Notre Dame |
| 19 | University of Virginia |
| 20 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 21 | Georgetown University |
| 22 | Vanderbilt University |
| 23 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 24 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 25 | Tufts University |
| 26 | University of California-Berkeley |
| 27 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| 28 | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 29 | University of Rochester |
| 30 | Brandeis University |
| 31 | Wake Forest University |
| 32 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 33 | Lehigh University |
| 34 | College of William and Mary |
| 35 | Case Western Reserve University |
| 36 | New York University |
| 37 | Boston College |
| 38 | Tulane University |
| 39 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 40 | University of California-Davis |
| 41 | Pennsylvania State University-University Park |
| 42 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 43 | University of California-San Diego |
| 44 | University of Southern California |
| 45 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign |
| 45 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| 47 | University of Florida |
| 48 | University of California-Irvine |
| 49 | Syracuse University |
| 50 | University of Washington |
